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attorney Witnesses GEORGE \V. MANN, OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

iatented April 17, 1906.

Application filed November 14, 1905. Serial No. 287,369.

To a whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Luis Obispo, in the county of San Luis Obispo and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Beehives, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to beehives, and especially to an improved closure therefor, having for its objects to produce a comparatively simple inexpensive device of this character which may be readily installed for use, one which may be conveniently adjusted 4 for varying the size of the hive-opening as circumstances may require. and one which may be properly arranged to control the in gress and egress of either the neuter bees or drones.

WVith these and other objects in view the invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hive equipped with a closure embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view in elevation of the device, showing the same in closed position. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the parts arranged to permit ingress and egress of the neuter bees and with the doorway opened through out its entire length. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the doorway closed throughout a portion of its length. Fig. 5 is a similar view showing a different arrangement of the slots or closures with the auxiliary slide in fully-opened position. Fig. 6 is a similar view showing both slides or closures adjusted for wholly opening the doorways, and the latter adapted for the passage of drones. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the main slide or closure. Fig. 8 is a similar view of the auxiliary slide or closure. Fig. 9 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 9 9 of Fig. 6.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a hive of usual construction embodying a wall 2, provided with a doorway 3 for admitting I tending slots 6. designed to receive fastening members or screws 7, by means of which it is attached to the wall 2 and adapted for vertical movement, there being struck from the ends of the slide outturned finger-pieces or lips 8, designed for enga ement when operating the slide, which, it will be noted, moves in a vertical plane and has its normally lower edge cut away or recessed at 9 throughout substantially half the length of the slide, this recess being of a depth or width somewhat less than the height of the doorway 3-for a pur pose which will hereinafter appear. The auxiliary closure or slide 5, which is also secured to the wall 2 by meansof a pair of fas tening-screws 7, is provided with a pair of spaced longitudinally-extending slots 10 to receive said screws, each of said slots being terminated at its ends in substantially l..- shaped portions or slot extensions 11, while the extensions 11 at the right-hand ends of the slots 10 are semicircularly recessed at 12 when the slide is moved fully toward the left and in partially-open position, as seen in Fig. 3. Struck from the slide 11 at a point between the slots 10 is an outturned finger portion or lip 13 for engagement in manipulating the slide.

In practice mally closed by half of the opening 0 is northe slide 4, the remaining half being closed by the slide 5, which covers the opening produced by the recess 9. When the parts are adjusted as seen in Fig. 3, the doorway 3 is opened throughout substantially half of its length, this opening being of a width or height to permit ingress or egress of the neuter bees, under which conditions the closure or slide 5 will be retained against movement, owing to engagement of the screw 7 in the recess 12, as before explained. When, however, it becomes desirable to reduce the length of the opening through which the neuter bees may pass into and out of the hive, the slide 5 is moved to the position illustrated in Fig. 4, with the screws 7 lying at the left-hand ends of the slots 10, it

entrance of the bees to and their exit from being understood that a proper variation in the hive, said doorway being extended throughout substantially the entire width of the wall 2.

For closing the opening 3 I employ a main slide or closure 4 and an auxiliary slide or I closure 5, these slides being struck or otherwise formed from sheet metal and of which the slide 4 is provided at spaced intervals throughout its length with transversely-exupward, as also seen in said figure, by means of the screws 7, it being understood that after the drones have passed out of the hive they may be excluded therefrom by readjusting the slides to the position illustrated in Fig. 5.

From the foregoing it is apparent that I produce a simple device admirably adapted for the attainment of the ends in view, it being understood that minor changes in the details herein set forth may be resorted to Without departing from the spirit of the in vention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a device of the class described, a hive having an opening, a main slide for normally partially closing said opening, means connecting the slide for vertical movement on the hive, an auxiliary slide for closing the remainder of said opening, and means connecting the auxiliary slide for vertical and horizontal movement relative to the main slide.

2. In a device of the class described, a hive having an elongated doorway, a main slide provided with transverse slots, fastening members entered through said slots for securing the slide in place, and an auxiliary slide having longitudinal slots terminated in transversely disposed slot extensions, said slots being designed to receive said fastening members for securing the auxiliary slide movably in place.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. MANN.

Witnesses:

J. M. FELTs, J. W. SMITH. 

